#oc spirits

[yellydany]

Nightmare Scarecrow Design commission🍂🐦

[maplewozapi]

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.

[buboplague]

waves

[shpepyao]

MH:W inspired attack on Awkwardos

[koboldfactory]

A Comic About Folklore

Made a silly comic about what the gang knows about the Spirit Emissaries

[choccy-milky]

scenes from my fic but make it ghibli 🌟

[panksage]

I use Gortash as a prop to bully my durge for his crimes.

[naycelium]

Hinoki, Caretaker of the Forest and it's Seedlings 🐇 🌰

[cokoweee]

The voices won I couldn’t wait cause I know my ass is slow with animations

Also uh don’t worry too much bout knowin stuff. Lil things here and there changed for this au

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

[juniper-clan]

Moon 14: Birth of Venus

(AKA the twins!)

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[zivazivc]

Happy birthday @spooky-pop! Here's a delightful picture of Ivy happily posing with her newly hatched baby brother who she adores very much <3

[lingrimmart]

G: < 3 this adоpt seria is fun to make (that was my bd today btw, but work is work)

[shpepyao]

Character that was born almost 2 years ago when I was feeling low, enraged and helpless Now he has a reference and some lore, perfect before Art Fight, heh I'll just copy here what I wrote for him on AF profile c: Being tainted by wrath. Their true self was lost long time ago, only empty husk remains. He lost ability to shapeshift in feral and humanoid form alongside with his magic, being stuck in true, monstrous look. Wrath is tall, almost 3.5m from toes to tips of horns.

Wrath is the reason behind forest fires on the planet, and since creature can't be killed by normal means, fire only makes him stronger, until he eventually "calms down" (loses all his power and things to burn) and lays down in ashes, dormant. He sleeps for several decades, growing back his fur, overgrowing with plants and moss, until something wakes him up again. Place where he decides to rest always has unnatural warmth and huge amount of greenery around.  Its not guaranteed that he will be enraged again instantly, after waking up most of the time he feels apathetic to everything around him, unless someone\something purposefully threatens him. Just awakened Wrath is slow, tangled in roots and overgrowth, stays in one place for days until he is ready to move on in search of something long forgotten. 

[koboldfactory]

Introducing the Spirit Emissaries! They've shown up in the background of a lot of my art pieces over the years so I thought I would explain a bit of their lore and how they work!

[choccy-milky]

⭐ HL x ghibli! ⭐